id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-294579-qjga5nmd Sornsa-ard, Tuanrit Management of Traumatic Spinal Fracture in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Situation 2020-04-24 .txt text/plain 875 60 50 Patients who require spine surgery should receive coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) screening to prevent nosocomial cross-infection before surgery. This article aims to propose a treatment algorithm for the management of traumatic spine fracture during the COVID-19 pandemic. Operative treatment with full PPE and infection control measures is very important when a patient is detected to have CO-VID-19 by PCR testing. Patients without symptoms and at low risk of exposure to COVID-19 can be given a surgical face mask to prevent hospital-acquired infections. This is in contrast to the previous review, "Advice on standardized diagnosis and treatment for spinal diseases during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, " which suggested that chest computed tomography and SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid test should be performed three days before surgery [3, 6] . Advice on standardized diagnosis and treatment for spinal diseases during the coronavirus disease 2019 Pandemic ./cache/cord-294579-qjga5nmd.txt ./txt/cord-294579-qjga5nmd.txt